(November 5, 2016 at 7:58 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(November 5, 2016 at 2:38 am)bennyboy Wrote: You are iffy because it's a dumb idea. That's because 2+2=4 isn't a rule or a set property-- it's simply a label. If there were a universe where math worked differently, you'd just have different labels for whatever THAT reality was. In any universe where there are 2 and 2, and the capacity to add, it will always be 4-- whatever you choose to call it. And if 2 + 2 = magic unicorn, then magic unicorn is just another representation of "4."
2 + 2 = 5 will never make sense to us because we're conditioned to this space-time. You can't rule it out on that basis. Goblygoop could very well have a strange axiom that simply makes maths different to what we're used to.
Then it's not math. It's something else.